Is there a trophy for Most Improved...

The theme for Open WOD 12.5 was looking back.  I will be honest when the workout was announced on Wednesday night I panicked.  By releasing the same final WOD from last years Open, it appeared that CrossFit HQ wanted athletes to spend some time, revisit how they performed last year and then marvel at how far their training has brought them over the last 365 days.  It makes sense, CrossFit would be getting even more buy in because of the obvious improvements most athletes would see. Kinda like they handed out a fresh jug of kool aid!    A ladder version of FRAN that required the athletes to add 3 thrusters and 3 CHEST TO BAR pull ups every round for 7 minutes. Immediately this posed a problem, I can't do a chest to bar, I am still frantically working on doing more than 2 kipping pull ups unbroken before March 31st. I knew that no matter what I did at the gym today I wouldn't get past the first 3 thrusters before getting "no repped" to death, so I resigned to that fact and thought of today as a great warm up for my real CrossFit Games next weekend.  And even though I completed the workout up to the 12s by doing a regular old chin over bar my official score was a three.   
Unfortunately my score today did not reflect how far I have come just in the five weeks that the open has been on, not to mention how far I have come since sitting on the sideline with my one month old son in my arms admiring those who dared to compete.   A whopping 3 does not adequately represent the improvements I have made to my physical and mental capabilities nor does it leave me feeling satisfied.  But what today and the rest of this five weeks have showed me is that sometimes its important to focus on what you CAN NOW DO that maybe you couldn't do before and don't waste so much time and energy thinking and worrying about the skills and movements that you have still yet to master. Week after week I set a PR, I did a movement or lifted a weight that I never had before, I pushed past limits I didn't think I could and even though I remained near the bottom of the leader board I could be proud of my performance and proud that all my hard work, time and energy paid off. 
So even though I can't compare this years final WOD to last year and relish in my obvious improvements I still got my glass of kool aid and am sitting here at home tonight happily sipping away thinking about FRAN and how next weekend will be one of my greatest personal accomplishments to date.